{"id":30178,"date":"2025-01-10T16:15:29","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T16:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/10\/after-the-fire-the-insurance-battles-la-victims-ordeal-may-just-be-beginning\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T16:15:29","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T16:15:29","slug":"after-the-fire-the-insurance-battles-la-victims-ordeal-may-just-be-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/10\/after-the-fire-the-insurance-battles-la-victims-ordeal-may-just-be-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"After the fire, the insurance battles: LA victims\u2019 ordeal may just be beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Now we have to make sure there\u2019s not a second, financial tragedy that follows the physical catastrophe,\u2019 says consumer advocate<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/jan\/10\/la-fires-live-updates-california-los-angeles-wildfires-fire-map-latest-news\">California wildfires \u2013 live<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>California homeowners who lost everything in this week\u2019s devastating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/california-wildfires\">Los Angeles-area fires<\/a> now have to battle their insurance companies to recover the value of their homeowners\u2019 policies \u2013 if they are lucky enough to have insurance at all.<\/p>\n<p>With estimates of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accuweather.com\/en\/blogs-webinars\/california-wildfires-52-57b-damage-estimate-accuweather-report\/1731718\">economic damage<\/a> from the fires now reaching $52bn-$57bn, consumer advocates and veterans of past disasters say homeowners can expect weeks or months of paperwork to prove that they have lost what they say they have lost, if not also pressure from claims adjusters and a whole class of disaster professionals to make a quick settlement for less than they are entitled to under their policies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/10\/california-los-angeles-fires-home-insurance\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Now we have to make sure there\u2019s not a second, financial tragedy that follows the physical catastrophe,\u2019 says consumer advocate California wildfires \u2013 live California homeowners who lost everything in this week\u2019s devastating Los Angeles-area fires now have to battle their insurance companies to recover the value of their homeowners\u2019 policies \u2013 if they are &#8230; <a title=\"After the fire, the insurance battles: LA victims\u2019 ordeal may just be beginning\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/10\/after-the-fire-the-insurance-battles-la-victims-ordeal-may-just-be-beginning\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about After the fire, the insurance battles: LA victims\u2019 ordeal may just be beginning\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}